Autistrain

Autistrain , 8 days ago to ActuallyAutistic group

People should let go. It's important to have joy.

For example, it was raining a lot today. I went for a walk in the forest under the rain. It was very peaceful with nearly nobody. You have small streams of water on the edge of the paths. With everything that the streams could carry, it went to small dams creating 'tiny lakes'.

What I like to do since I'm a kid is breaking the dams to see the water flowing, building some rudimental embankment to redirect the flow.

I was there in the forest walking. I stopped and broke some dams and built some embankments. I had a lot of fun and #autistic joy.

This is a good thing to remember to let go, do what we like and give us joy.

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Autistrain , 10 days ago to ActuallyAutistic group

"in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking.",

" language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought."

"it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition"

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w

Sadly, paywalled. But, it gives good points to counter the narrative that if we don't have a language, we can't think, etc.

Edit: If you want to read it:
https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf

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Autistrain , 13 days ago to ActuallyAutistic group

This essay somehow resonates in me. Since I can remember, I never understood genders. It's simply not a thing for me. Why should we be restrained and oppress ourselves with a binary choice? It doesn't make any sense in a world of diversity. It's a purely social construction that doesn't feet my view and who I am. We are all humans.

“Autistic people aren’t being fooled into being nonbinary. We see past the binary that fools you.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/autistic-people-arent-being-fooled-into-being-nonbinary-we-see-past-the-binary-that-fools-you/

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Autistrain , 13 days ago to ActuallyAutistic group

I received a message with a link to a local newspaper speaking about autism.

1. As always they need education on the topic

2. I had to kindly explain the article about the promotion of aspie supremacy. What bring us to point 1.

We need to better educate journalists on the topic. I see all the time bad and pathologising articles on the subject of autism. It's like autistics aren't human or we have to be cured. It's not fine at all.

On aspie supremacy:

Elon Musk’s Autistic Anti-Patterns
https://oolong.medium.com/elon-musks-autistic-anti-patterns-5a96111ef28f

Mad supremacy:
https://criticalneurodiversity.com/2024/02/19/mad-supremacy/

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Autistrain , 1 month ago to ActuallyAutistic group

If there are people liking physics here in the #actuallyAutistic ? I was doing my walk and spotted this nice example of refraction of the light with stones on the river bank. The stones look flatter on the right due to the refraction of the light.

#physics @actuallyautistic